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Gender Roles, Homosexuality, and the Anglican Church in Sydney
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 March 2016
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In September 1992 a periodical published by a conservative evangelical campus ministry led by an Anglican clergyman based at the University of New South Wales in Sydney published an editorial under the heading ‘Is homosexuality next?’ It began with an imaginary dialogue:
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